Can you drink rhinoceros horn in water?

Rhinoceros horn is now banned for medicinal use, clinical use of buffalo horn instead, due to buffalo horn keratin is difficult to dissolve in water, soak the water when the active ingredients are difficult to precipitate in a short period of time, so it is not recommended to buffalo horn soak and drink to treat diseases, clinical use of buffalo horn into the decoction, usually need to be decocted for more than 3 hours, in order to play a better effect.
Buffalo horn is the horn of the buffalo, which is a substitute for rhinoceros horn in traditional Chinese medicine. This product has the effects of clearing heat and cooling blood, detoxifying and calming fright. It is used for high fever of warm disease, macular rash, vomiting blood, convulsions (pediatric diseases mainly manifested by dizziness, convulsions, convulsions), epilepsy and other conditions.
This product is used for internal use in decoction, powder, it is advisable to decoct for more than 3 hours; external use of powder mixed or adjusted compresses. It is not to be used by people with cold spleen and stomach.
Clinically, it is usually used in combination with other medicines. It is used in combination with Niu Huang and Scutellaria baicalensis for fever, hemiplegia and stroke; and in combination with Acorus calamus and Lian Qiao for epilepsy of blood-heat.
If there is any discomfort, it is necessary to go to the hospital as soon as possible to formulate individualized diagnosis and treatment plan, and the above medicines should be used under the guidance of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, so as to avoid delaying the condition.